Posting Tweets

You can use the YT tag to embed YouTube links. Is there any way to make it possible to embed a Tweet in the same way?

Although I don't personally use Twitter a lot of news now comes on Twitter first and it could be good to be able to embed a link like that when posting a source to something rather than a link to a full article sometimes. A politics blog I use has automatic embedding of both Tweets and YouTube videos when you post a link to either and it works quite well there.

I'll add something. Give me a bit.

By the way, this will go faster if you get OG to request it.

It looks like Twitter's API is not as simple as something like youtube.

Twitter's API is a massive pain in the ass. Because it uses OAuth. And then you have to get like a fucking twitter account, then set up an 'app' in a special section and jeez fuck no. Twitter hates people looking a tweets when it's not in their branding, so they really reigned in the third party stuff which means making their API a pain the ass.

I mean, I think there are some aspects where you don't need to authenticate so it's a lot easier. Otherwise, maybe find a third party plugin that's already integrated the functionality?

Twitter Link

Works like youtube.

So, how'd you do it?

Javascript fetch of the embed code.

I think I can tweak this to allow users to link entire twitter conversations in one go. I'll play around a bit with it later.

[tweet] =

Twitter Link
[tweetconv] =

Twitter Conversation Link

Looks like the API isn't giving full conversations, there's like a dozen tweets in that conversation I'm trying to use in the example. I'll try to go through their documentation a bit more later and see if I can't make that better.

edit: This isn't going to work. Maybe I'll look at going through Storify instead.

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Originally Posted by Wraith

Javascript fetch of the embed code.

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Through their API, or are you being a naughty boy?

Yeah, through their web API. It does wind up hitting their servers twice for every tweet on page load (once to grab the embed code, and again to embed the embed code), so it's at least a bit naughty, but I figure it's their own fault for making it difficult to create a system capable of embedding tweets directly.

FUCK THE POLICE

To be fair, I think they can handle the traffic we generate.

Thanks! That was quick.

Test:

Twitter Link

That works great thanks!